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schwingen

Pronunciation: [ˈʃvɪŋən]

“schwingen” is a German word. Its 13 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to swing (to move back and forth)
  2. to move (somewhere) by swinging
  3. to swing (to move something using a swinging motion)
  4. to wave; to brandish
  5. to vibrate
  6. to oscillate
  7. to resound
  8. to propagate (somewhere) as sound, to move throughout (an area) resounding
  9. to be expressed (in someone's words)
  10. to ski back and forth
  11. to arc
  12. to clean (hemp or flax) of wood residues
  13. to wrestle in the Schwingen (Swiss wrestling) style

Etymology

From Middle High German swingen, from Old High German swingan, from Proto-Germanic *swinganą. Cognate with Low German swingen, English swing. Doublet of swingen.

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